Voyeuerism

My late night library session was not as insanely depressing as it should have been (as I am currently working on an essay on gastric cancer - terrific fun) due to an amusing ned-fight incident taking place on University Avenue. I was in the medical school across the street (the picture on the left) and thanks to the fantastic glass façade and open windows, we were able to hear every single word of the encounter and see it all unfold.

The incident concerns Danielle (the jilted partner), Davie (the two timing cad) and Cheryl (the mutual friend). I first noticed something was a-going down when I heard a god awful screech coming from outside. I thought nothing of it.

The screaming and shouting continued for a good few minutes before curiosity got the better of me and I had to go stare out the window. It turns out that Danielle and Davie had been going out, and Davie had slept with someone else. Davie did not seem that bothered about it, and did not want to continue seeing Danielle. Danielle was very unhappy about Davie's infidelity, but was quite adament that they were still 'an item'. Cheryl was there to shout at Davie.

This continued for a good 45 minutes, and during this Cheryl left and it ended up with just Davie and Danielle shouting at each other. At one point there was shouts of death threats, and threatened bottlings, until the a police car came. The most amusing thing about it was the fact that the police were there for about half an hour, and all they seemed to do was search Davie (which took about a minute) and then held his hand for the next 29 minutes. AND they even brought an extra police car in so that they could search Danielle.

It all ended with a truely romantic scene as the police let both Davie and Danielle go away. They walked off hand in hand. True love.

The best thing about this was the fact that we were so easily distracted: for about an hour we stood at the windows and pointed and laughed. It was only on the walk home I noticed how obvious we would have been to the everyone: not only because there were 8 of us standing at the glass façade, but also because all the windows were open and we were really loud.

Medicine: the caring, compassionate subject whose students watch possible assaults and laugh